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Jack Dempsey
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Apr 2, 2010
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I was moving a bunch of decor around my 125 tank and released a huge amount of gas and my fish are all going belly up! How do I save them?

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I already lost my loaches and 2 big pangasius catfish in like 10 minutes and now some of my cichlids are swimming spirals... don't know how this happened...

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Quickly filled a 55 and put my cichlids in it but is it too late?

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do you use a gravel vac or a plastic kids beach rake to disturb the gravel i dont get gas pockets because i do.
 
Wow.. that is crazy, doesn't the sand get a blackish color if there are gas pockets? I disturb the sand in my 125g every water change...I hope your other fish make it and sorry to hear about the ones you've lossed
 
Well I use an undergravel filter in it with dime size gravel and was always sure I would regret it one day... it let's too much food sink into it and get trapped... I also made the mistake of placing a foot across flat rock in the tank and not moving it to clean for about a month and that's what I moved and made the gas escape... 2 clown loaches died in like the first 2 minutes and then the red tailed botia and the angelicas loach then a bichir... my large leucistic pleco has died too now... hemorrhaged pretty bad... sorry bad spelling... the survivors are all the expensive ones! 2 Electric blue JD's about 6 inches long and a 5 star general...a 5" royal pleco and a 6 inch zz flowerhorn...

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Well its the next morning and noone else has died they all perked back up after changing a lot of fish around in other tanks to get them to good water... the electric blues were all but dead lastnight and my wife and I just held them in front of the powerhead stream until they could stay upright on there own and they LIVED! I was certain I had killed them but I guess they are tougher than people think... the regular jack dempsey died in about 20 minutes after swapping tanks lastnight and the leucistic pleco started bleeding from his mouth and his fin bases all were bloodshot... I have no idea what I've done wrong... this is terrible! Even an air breather like a bichir and a pleco could have survived low oxygen water but this gas was deadly... this really sucksuploadfromtaptalk1333300435064.jpguploadfromtaptalk1333300475751.jpguploadfromtaptalk1333300519934.jpguploadfromtaptalk1333300556407.jpg its hard to see the tape measure on the last pic but these were all mature fish about 3 yrs old and five to seven on the clown loaches.... Just sucks, I failed big this time... lesson learned

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